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Multi-view crowd counting and localization fuse the input multi-views for estimating the crowd number or locations on the ground. Existing methods mainly focus on accurately predicting on the crowd shown in the input views, which neglects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Qi Zhang , Bin Li , Antoni B. Chan , Hui Huang

We explore the design of an effective crowdsourcing system for an $M$-ary classification task. Crowd workers complete simple binary microtasks whose results are aggregated to give the final decision. We consider the scenario where the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Qunwei Li , Pramod K. Varshney

We consider the problem of optimal budget allocation for crowdsourcing problems, allocating users to tasks to maximize our final confidence in the crowdsourced answers. Such an optimized worker assignment method allows us to boost the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Angela Zhou , Irineo Cabreros , Karan Singh

Crowdsensing, also known as participatory sensing, is a method of data collection that involves gathering information from a large number of common people (or individuals), often using mobile devices or other personal technologies. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chattu Bhargavi , Vikash Kumar Singh

We conduct an experimental analysis of a dataset comprising over 27 million microtasks performed by over 70,000 workers issued to a large crowdsourcing marketplace between 2012-2016. Using this data---never before analyzed in an academic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ayush Jain , Akash Das Sarma , Aditya Parameswaran , Jennifer Widom

The recent proliferation of human-carried mobile devices has given rise to mobile crowd sensing (MCS) systems that outsource sensory data collection to the public crowd. In order to identify truthful values from (crowd) workers' noisy or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Haiming Jin , Lu Su , Klara Nahrstedt

To observe how individual behavior shapes a larger community's actions, agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) has been widely adopted by researchers in social sciences, economics, and epidemiology. While simulations can be run on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ann Nedime Nese Rende , Tolga Yilmaz , Özgür Ulusoy

The simulation of the dynamical behavior of pedestrians and crowds in spatial structures is a consolidated research and application context that still presents challenges for researchers in different fields and disciplines. Despite…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Giuseppe Vizzari , Stefania Bandini

With the rapid development of mobile devices and crowdsourcing platforms, the spatial crowdsourcing has attracted much attention from the database community. Specifically, the spatial crowdsourcing refers to sending location-based requests…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Peng Cheng , Xiang Lian , Lei Chen , Jinsong Han , Jizhong Zhao

Crowd employment is a new form of short-term and flexible employment which has emerged during the past decade. In order to understand this new form of employment, it is crucial to illuminate the underlying motivations of the workforce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Lisa Posch , Arnim Bleier , Clemens Lechner , Daniel Danner , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

With the development of mobile sensing and mobile social networking techniques, Mobile Crowd Sensing and Computing (MCSC), which leverages heterogeneous crowdsourced data for large-scale sensing, has become a leading paradigm. Built on top…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Bin Guo , Chao Chen , Daqing Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Alvin Chin

Crowdsourcing systems often have crowd workers that perform unreliable work on the task they are assigned. In this paper, we propose the use of error-control codes and decoding algorithms to design crowdsourcing systems for reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Aditya Vempaty , Lav R. Varshney , Pramod K. Varshney

Crowdsourcing with the intelligent agents carrying smart devices is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. It has opened up meeting an extensive list of real life applications such as measuring air pollution level, road traffic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Vikash Kumar Singh , Anjani Samhitha Jasti , Sunil Kumar Singh , Sanket Mishra

Crowd sensing is a new paradigm which leverages the ubiquity of sensor-equipped mobile devices to collect data. To achieve good quality for crowd sensing, incentive mechanisms are indispensable to attract more participants. Most of existing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Jiajun Sun

Evaluating workers is a critical aspect of any crowdsourcing system. In this paper, we devise techniques for evaluating workers by finding confidence intervals on their error rates. Unlike prior work, we focus on "conciseness"---that is,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Manas Joglekar , Hector Garcia-Molina , Aditya Parameswaran

In this paper, we explore how to efficiently combine crowdsourcing and machine intelligence for the problem of document screening, where we need to screen documents with a set of machine-learning filters. Specifically, we focus on building…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Evgeny Krivosheev , Burcu Sayin , Alessandro Bozzon , Zoltán Szlávik

Integrated sensing, computation, and communication (ISCC) has been recently considered as a promising technique for beyond 5G systems. In ISCC systems, the competition for communication and computation resources between sensing tasks for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yinghui He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai , Haiyan Luo

The widespread use of mobile devices propels the development of new-fashioned video applications like 3D (3-Dimensional) stereo video and mobile cloud game via web or App, exerting more pressure on current mobile access network. To address…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaotong Wu , Lianyong Qi , Xiaolong Xu , Shui Yu , Wanchun Dou , Xuyun Zhang

Multi-view crowd counting has been previously proposed to utilize multi-cameras to extend the field-of-view of a single camera, capturing more people in the scene, and improve counting performance for occluded people or those in low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Qi Zhang , Wei Lin , Antoni B. Chan

Crowd simulation is an area of research largely used in the game industry. From the movement of a single NPC to the movement of an entire army, crowd simulation methods can be used to move agents through the environment while avoiding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Gabriel Silva , Paulo Knob , Rubens Montanha , Soraia Musse